Unfortunately, white middle-class feminists under the reproductive rights banner largely ignored women who had been subjected to forced sterilizations, were targeted by eugenics and were denied the right to have or raise their own children.

Chen angered authorities after documenting forced late-term abortions and sterilizations and other abuses in his rural community, but was sentenced for instigating an attack on government offices and organizing a group of people to disrupt traffic, charges his supporters say were fabricated.

In the amateur video, released online by a U.S.-based campaign group, Chen Guangcheng -- a self-taught legal advocate for women who had forced abortions and sterilizations -- and his wife Yuan Weijing describe the experience of being smuggled out of his family's village, and how the couple and their children were being held at home since Chen's release from prison five months ago.